The Teacher Quotes

“You know things are seriously bad when even ice cream doesn’t help.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“You like spending time with your books more than you like spending time with me. I don’t think it was true, but if it was, could anyone blame her?”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Digging a grave is hard work.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Every time I think I’ve experienced the worst day yet, there is a new winner.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“But we’re never going to be able to be friends again. Things will never be the way they used to be between the two of us. Not since Hudson helped me kill my father.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I recite to myself the poem he once wrote for me many years ago, back when I was fifteen years old and he was my English teacher”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“If you’ve never been buried alive, I don’t recommend it.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I am so lucky. I have a beautiful house, a fulfilling career, and a husband who is kind and mild mannered and incredibly handsome. And as Nate pulls the car onto the road and starts driving in the direction of the school, all I can think to myself is that I hope a truck blows through a stop sign, plows into the Honda, and kills us both instantly.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Sometimes I try to kid myself that I’m an adult now, but how can I be an adult when I still feel fifteen half the time?”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“She’s just lucky that Nate sees something in her, because God knows I don’t.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“And as I put the finishing touches on my husband’s grave in the woods, I recite to myself the poem he once wrote for me many years ago, back when I was fifteen years old and he was my English teacher fresh out of college who swore to me I was his soulmate: Life nearly passed me by Then she Young and alive With smooth hands And pink cheeks Showed me myself Took away my breath With cherry-red lips Gave me life once again”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Not since Hudson helped me kill my father.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I remember when I was a little kid, I felt like anything that was wrong, my mom could hug me and make it right again. But there is no way for her to make any of this right again. Part of growing up is figuring out that your parents don’t have that ability anymore.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“He just called me his soulmate. It’s wild, because I feel the exact same way, but I would have thought I was imagining it if he hadn’t said it. “You can’t help who you form a connection with. Right?”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Why would I be stupid enough to think my husband would want to have sex with me on my birthday?”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“He thinks the number of shoes I have at the bottom of the closet is bad enough.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Sometimes my teachers act like they wish they were anywhere but school.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“At one point, I drove by Simon’s Shoes, which used to be Eve’s favorite shoe store, and for a moment, a wave of sorrow came over me. I used to love her. I truly did.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I have eaten lunch alone every day”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“We never left it in the trunk after all.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“If I were a cat, I would have peed on him, but since I’m a human, I plant a kiss on his lips that is markedly steamier than our usual three kisses per day.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I imagine dying is like standing on the precipice of that abyss, knowing that you will fall in at any second.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“And as Nate pulls the car onto the road and starts driving in the direction of the school, all I can think to myself is that I hope a truck blows through a stop sign, plows into the Honda, and kills us both instantly.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“of choking the life out of me. He will do anything to keep me from ruining his reputation—even this. My vision slowly fades to black. I am dying. This man is killing me, right here and right now. I can’t even take a last dying breath because he is crushing my windpipe. And as I die, I wonder who will care that I’m gone. Not my parents, who barely speak to me anymore except on holidays. Jay might care, although on some level, he’ll also be relieved. And certainly not my husband, who is the one squeezing the life out of me and is the last face I see before I die.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“growls. “I won’t let you.” His grip tightens around my neck, and I can’t get a breath in anymore. It feels like my eyes are bulging out of their sockets, and black spots dance in my vision. I desperately claw at his hands, but Nate is much stronger than I am, especially since I just got knocked unconscious. The next five seconds seem to last an eternity as I realize that my husband has every intention”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“What’s that on her neck?”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Were they? I chew on my lower lip, unable to tear my eyes away from those angry red marks. They almost look like they’re in the shape of…fingers.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“Plus, eventually I will graduate from high school, and I will get to date whoever I want. But if Nathaniel is still with his wife, he will be trapped. If only Mrs. Bennett weren’t around. It would be so much better.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“The old Eve—the one I fell in love with—would never contemplate such a thing, but I believe the woman I was married to would be capable of it.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“que solo tengo que ponerme de los nervios otros diez minutos hasta que suena el timbre. Todos los demás se levantan y desfilan fuera del aula, pero yo me quedo pegada a mi silla. Y lo mismo hace el señor Bennett.”
― Freida McFadden, La profesora